Where did this filthy thing come from?

 

Where did this filthy thing come from?
--
While throwing a book on psychoanalysis into a fire; reported in Ernest Penney Earnest, S. Weir Mitchell, Novelist and Physician (1950), p. 180.

 

Silas Weir Mitchell

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